Dual‐Sensitivity Multiple Sclerosis Lesion and CSF Segmentation for Multichannel 3T Brain MRI

A pipeline for fully automated segmentation of 3T brain MRI scans in multiple sclerosis (MS) is presented. This 3T morphometry (3TM) pipeline provides indicators of MS disease progression from multichannel datasets with high‐resolution 3‐dimensional T1‐weighted, T2‐weighted, and fluid‐attenuated inversion‐recovery (FLAIR) contrast. 3TM segments white (WM) and gray matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to assess atrophy and provides WM lesion (WML) volume.

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